[Tutor] Python curses document review?
Cameron Simpson
cs at cskk.id.au
Sun May 24 19:31:54 EDT 2020
On 25May2020 00:12, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>I've spent the last two weeks of lockdown translating the Linux
>Documentation Project's "Curses Programming HOWTO" document,
>by Pradeep Padala, into Python curses.
>
>I'm about half way through which means I've covered all of
>the basic curses module stuff and am just starting on the
>curses.panel module. Given that relatively few users
>probably work with panel I thought this might be a good
>opportunity to see if anyone fancies giving me early feedbak
>on the curses section?
>
>It's a PDF of about 60 pages length - much longer than all
>the existing python curses documents put together! It is not
>exhaustive but does cover most of what most users need:
>input/output/colours/windows/text menus/mouse control etc.
>
>I must emphasize that this is very much Pradeep's document
>with the code translated from C to python, I've only tweaked
>the text where necessary because of differences between
>the libraries.
>
>Any volunteers?
>Anyone fancy having a crack at writing an old school
>console game?! Space invaders maybe? :-)
>
>Let me know and I'll email the PDF.
I'd be happy to.
Do you have a link to Pradeep Padala's document for comparison?
Remembering that I've done little curses, and very little in Python. But
I'm familia with it to a degree. Maybe I am a good audience.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au>
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